I was watching television one day and there it was on it on how to reduce the deficit, some of the most ridiculous ideas that I heard was sell the public parks and monuments yielding us nearly 4 trillion dollars. As they said, it will help to balance the budget in the future, but nobody discussed that it is a one time deal and the deficit is going to remain with us for quite sometime. Any way it was one ridiculous idea that is too far fetched and ridiculous to start with. And this I heard from so called experts.
I mean why even think about even selling your national treasures and parks which are priceless to start with. There are so many other ways to reduce the deficit and they had to talk about this one shot deal. Have we really ran out of ideas of how to fix the budget deficit that we are just swinging our arms in the dark trying to catch on any idea that comes to our mind as the ONE which will solve our debt and deficit problem once and for all. These suggestions should be in some comedy show and a serious discussion like this should not be left to some news magazine on so called television news shows.
Friday, December 3, 2010
The election results
Now that the elections are over, we have a new landscape of Republicans majority and the Democrats the minority. Like the Republicans in the Clinton era, when they took over the Congress, the Democrats did not learn their lesson and they got high when they won the White House and the Congress and went on a spending spree and then have paid the price. This was not suppose to happen since the American public was tired of the Republicans eight year reign but the Democrats made such a mess that they did not have a choice and throws them out.
It is true that when the Democrats took over, the economy was in a mess but they did not make things better by spending their first year on the so called health care bill and then the humongous stimulus package that was suppose to cure the ills of this recession. It did avert the disaster, but the jobless rate never came down much and the government’s inaction and anti business policies made it much worse. It is also true that if people are happy and content with their lives and jobs, they will want the status quo, but I guess it is never learnt in Washington and the incumbent politicians mess it up and are the target of people’s wrath no matter what their affiliation is. Now here the lesson learnt is the biggest issue facing the American public right now is the economy and if it is not fixed, the next two years of the Democratic presidency does not look good.
It is true that when the Democrats took over, the economy was in a mess but they did not make things better by spending their first year on the so called health care bill and then the humongous stimulus package that was suppose to cure the ills of this recession. It did avert the disaster, but the jobless rate never came down much and the government’s inaction and anti business policies made it much worse. It is also true that if people are happy and content with their lives and jobs, they will want the status quo, but I guess it is never learnt in Washington and the incumbent politicians mess it up and are the target of people’s wrath no matter what their affiliation is. Now here the lesson learnt is the biggest issue facing the American public right now is the economy and if it is not fixed, the next two years of the Democratic presidency does not look good.
Are boys really slow?
I keep on hearing that boys are slower than girls and I am in fact getting tired of hearing it all the time. What makes them slow that they are in fact on all the top corporations of the world? It is true that the girls mature early, but that does not prove that the boys take their own sweet time to grow, some boys grow mentally faster and they have more opportunities to explore as compared to girls. Maybe it can be also be true that they are still immature after marriage or there are so many shows on television depicting men as really dumber than girls. Even in horror movies, the last person standing is usually a girl, but it is a stereotype that is being created by the media and even some parents.
Once you take into account that boys indeed get matured later on, but it does not mean they are slower or more mentally backward. It is just nature and to suggest that boys can have a pass since they are the slower ones and they learn more slowly is to create an environment that reinforces this kind of stereotype and it is not healthy to the male species and it may ultimately harm their growth . As I still refuse to believe that boys are slower than girls.
Once you take into account that boys indeed get matured later on, but it does not mean they are slower or more mentally backward. It is just nature and to suggest that boys can have a pass since they are the slower ones and they learn more slowly is to create an environment that reinforces this kind of stereotype and it is not healthy to the male species and it may ultimately harm their growth . As I still refuse to believe that boys are slower than girls.
Loyalty-Then and Now
By loyalty I mean to a company or a workplace. Long time ago people use to work for a single company and retired from there (they now too but not that much). At that time the upheavals of the economy has not caught on like they are now. Another factor was that by staying with one company, they would accumulate pension and if they leave, they would have lost it. But now the meaning of loyalty has become murkier and somewhat irrelevant. This is due to one of the lasting effects of private pension funds like the 401K plans where you accumulate money and when you resign, it would not affect your 401K and you can take it to another company.
This mobility of the retirement benefits is one of the main reasons of the erosion of loyalty to a single company. Another thing that I have noticed is that the employment has become kind of “at will”, meaning you can give the company two weeks or less of a notice and the company can do the same without shedding tears on either side. Is this good or bad, you be the judge, but since the corporations see their own bottom line, people have started to see theirs and where they can find better jobs, they will move on without even thinking about what they are leaving behind. The only loyalty is towards your own and nobody else.
This mobility of the retirement benefits is one of the main reasons of the erosion of loyalty to a single company. Another thing that I have noticed is that the employment has become kind of “at will”, meaning you can give the company two weeks or less of a notice and the company can do the same without shedding tears on either side. Is this good or bad, you be the judge, but since the corporations see their own bottom line, people have started to see theirs and where they can find better jobs, they will move on without even thinking about what they are leaving behind. The only loyalty is towards your own and nobody else.
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